4. Detail – Assure labor, material, and equipment breakdowns are available for EACH task as appropriate.

5. Integrate your work with a LOCALLY RESEARCHED unit price commercial construction cost data base. You can’t know or keep up to date on everything, and even if you did/could, this is a great way to supplement your data. DO NOT USE a national unit cost book and/or location factors/indexes. The latter will introduce significant error.